According to crossdev --help, in the most simple case, crossdev should use an overlay named "crossdev": -oO, --ov-output path Overlay to write crossdev package links [default: uses repo with name 'crossdev', or 'cross-${CTARGET}', or falls back to first from --overlays list] However, that breaks if there are other overlays in repos.conf that have the same (or no) priority as the "crossdev" overlay. Workaround: assign unique priority to "crossdev" overlay. Due to the way the gawk-script in parse_repo_config() organises overlays, they are apparently expected to have a unique priority. I can't find anything in portage(5) that supports this requirement. But then the order won't be sorted by priority anyway, as the iteration via for (prio in prios) will not run by numerical index, so the order established by asorti() is not what's actually returned. Plus it's a pure literal order, not a numerically correct one. The attached patch attempts to correct all of these issues. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Prepare an overlay named "crossdev" for use by crossdev. 2. Make sure there are other overlays in repos.conf that have the same priority as the one created in step 1 or configure both "crossdev" and other overlays without priority in repos.conf 3. crossdev -t whatever Actual Results: crossdev may choose the wrong overlay, depending on the order they are returned in by portageq repositories_configuration. In my case this showed because it chose an overlay on a read-only NFS mount and therefore failed. Otherwise, it could have polluted another overlay or crossdev's files could have been lost when pruning the overlay it would have chosen. Expected Results: crossdev should find the overlay intended regardless of any attribute besides the repository's name and location. 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Created attachment 396884 [details, diff] Attempt to fix overlay sorting
can you post the output of your `portageq repositories_configuration /` for me ?
/etc/portage/repos.conf/crossdev.conf --- [crossdev] location = /usr/local/portage/crossdev #priority = 1234 # hack back#540586 --- $ portageq repositories_configuration / [DEFAULT] auto-sync = yes main-repo = gentoo [alon-barlev] auto-sync = yes location = /usr/local/portage/alon-barlev-overlay masters = gentoo [alonbl-local] auto-sync = yes location = /usr/local/portage/local masters = gentoo [crossdev] auto-sync = yes location = /usr/local/portage/crossdev masters = gentoo [gentoo] auto-sync = yes location = /var/gentoo/portage masters = priority = -1000 sync-type = websync sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
I have exactly the same problem. I'm now also using the priority workaround after restoring my scala-overlay. [DEFAULT] auto-sync = yes main-repo = gentoo [crossdev] auto-sync = no location = /usr/local/crossdev_overlay masters = gentoo priority = 10 [gentoo] auto-sync = true location = /var/db/repos/gentoo masters = priority = -1000 sync-type = git sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo [gentoo-scala-tools] auto-sync = yes location = /usr/local/sbt_gentoo_overlay masters = gentoo sync-type = git sync-uri = http://github.com/whiter4bbit/overlays.git
After fixing this bug the documentation about the local crossdev overlay should be updated: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay/Local_overlay#Crossdev
should be fixed by: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/crossdev.git/commit/?id=b613790793b46ccc596e1dc28163ea865d508b65
